Here are ten places to start with, on your networking journey to lucrative joint venture partnerships:

1.Live Seminars and Conferences 2.Breakfast Meeting Groups

3.Trade Shows and Exhibitions

4.Membership Associations

5.Introductions made through your business associates and vendors

6.Online discussion groups and forums within your industry

7.Live Training Courses

8.On Your Travels e.g. on airplane or train

9.Interactive TeleSeminars and TeleBootcamps

10. Other Networking Events e.g. at business parties

The size and quality of your network determines your income. The more valuable contacts you have in your network, more lucrative your joint venture projects would be. Build a profitable network, and increasing your net worth would be easier than you think.

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3.Resilience

Many small business owners don’t really understand benefits of joint ventures and may be skeptical at first. You need endurance to educate them about many benefits a joint venture brings, and to put their minds at ease concerning any issues they may have. You will also need resilience and patience after launching your campaign, as results may not be immediately forthcoming.

4.The ability to visualize synergy

Even if you choose partner with largest client list in marketplace, if there’s no real synergy, partnership will not jell. It is critical to make sure that combination of products and/or services fit together, and are not proverbial “round peg in a square hole.”

5.Effective negotiation skills From minute door is opened to possibility of a joint venture, serious negotiations begin. Negotiating skills are necessary in making sure that both parties reach a win-win agreement, and also so that you achieve goals you have set in planning stages of your project. The ability to present all benefits of joint venture to your prospective partner in early phase of negotiations is critical to their acceptance of your proposal.

Joint venture marketing is rising in popularity everyday, and is an excellent way for small businesses to springboard their efforts to new success levels. These skills are all acquirable skills, and many resources are available to small business owner wanting to reach out in these directions.

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